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Session Report: Violinist Rachel Podger on recording Biber sonatas

2025-07-25T08:50:00

2. Rachel Podger - Brecon Baroque (c) Andrew Staples

Violinist Rachel Podger tells Peter Quantrill about her new recording of Biber sonatas, and how the music has both a sense of the unexpected and the power to soothe and delight

Each of us could do with a break from life now and then; or at least, ‘those bits of life that you want to have a little escape from’, as Rachel Podger puts it. That’s exactly why she has found the process of recording the violin sonatas of Biber so rewarding…

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